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“We are not alone”: Legacies of Eugenics

The exhibition “We Are Not Alone”: Legacies of Eugenics reviews with critical openness the impact of eugenics across time and space. It reveals how eugenics has influenced programmes of human betterment in different national and international contexts since the 1880s. 

22 Sep – 24 Feb
September 2022 – 24 February 2023
Royal College of Psychiatrists21 Prescot Street
London E1 8BB
29
June2022
National AtheneumIași
Romania
18-20
May2022
Södertörn UniversityStockholm
Sweden
at the Critical Approaches to Romani Studies conference
27-12
April – May2022
Stara Biblioteka, Uniwersytetu WarszawskiegoKamienica pod Aniołami
ul. Kazimierza Wielkiego 31-33
Wrocław
31-21
March – April2022
The Transylvanian Museum of EthnographyMemorandumului Street no. 21
400114, Cluj-Napoca, România
21-3
September – October2021
Sutu PalaceMuzeul Municipiului București
Bulevardul Ion C. Brătianu 2, București
21-30
September2021
Wiener Holocaust Library29 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DP
Neues Volk, 1 March 1936, p. 37.
Neues Volk, 1 March 1936, p. 37. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Exhibition PosterDownload

It is therefore imperative to engage with the legacies of eugenics and to reclaim the academic, cultural and social spaces it occupied for so long. Guided by the aim of unveiling a hidden and tenebrous history, the exhibition therefore reorients the focus on anti-eugenics. To create the sense of togetherness, of acceptance and inclusion, together with the the ability to respond forcefully to any form of discrimination, requires that we confront our eugenic past and its tentacular personifications in the present.

Photographs from the exhibition

Exhibition photograph at the Royal College of Psychiatrists
At the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Exhibition photograph at the Royal College of Psychiatrists
At the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Exhibition photograph at the Royal College of Psychiatrists
At the Royal College of Psychiatrists
The exhibition opening of We are not alone': Legacies of Eugenics in Iași
Exhibition opening in Iași
Opening of the We are not alone exhibition in Stockholm
Exhibition opening in Stockholm
Marius Turda at the We are not alone exhibition in Stockholm
Marius Turda at the exhibition opening in Stockholm
The opening of the 'We Are Not Alone' exhibition in Warsaw
Opening night in Warsaw
The opening of the 'We Are Not Alone' exhibition in Warsaw
Professor Marius Turda at the opening night in Warsaw
The opening of the 'We Are Not Alone' exhibition in Warsaw
Reception in Warsaw
The opening of the 'We Are Not Alone' exhibition in Warsaw
Panel from the exhibition in Warsaw
We are not Alone exhibition banner
Exhibition banner, Wiener Holocaust library
Professor Marius Turda outside the We are not Alone exhibition
Professor Marius Turda outside the exhibition in London
Panorama of the We are not Alone exhibition
We are not Alone exhibition panel
We are not Alone exhibition opening day photograph
We are not Alone exhibition
We are not Alone exhibition opening day photograph
We are not Alone exhibition
We are not Alone exhibition opening day photograph
We are not Alone exhibition panel
We are not Alone exhibition opening day photograph
We are not Alone exhibition panel
‘We are not Alone: Legacies of Eugenics‘ photographs

Visit the Exhibition

A virtual display of the exhibition panels. Click each image to view full-screen.

We Are Not Alone exhibition flier introduction
We Are Not Alone exhibition poster
Exhibition Panel 1 - British Eugenics
British Eugenics
Exhibition panel 2 - Marriage, Family, and Children
Marriage, Family, and Children
Exhibition Panel 3 - Education
Education
Exhibition Panel 4 - 'Feeble-Mindedness' & 'Mental Deficiency'
‘Feeble-Mindedness’ & ‘Mental Deficiency’
Exhibition Panel 5 - American Eugenics
American Eugenics
Exhibition panel 6 - From German to Nazi Racial Hygiene
From German to Nazi Racial Hygiene
Exhibition panel 7 - Internationalisation
Internationalisation
Exhibition Panel 8 - The Experts
The Experts
Exhibition Panel 9 - The Victims
The Victims
Exhibition Panel 10 - Confronting Eugenics
Confronting Eugenics
'Nordic Race Science' by Minna Henriksson
‘Nordic Race Science’ by Minna Henriksson
We Are Not Alone - thanks
Acknowledgments

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